Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1979 film. Notable as possibly being the worst of 171 films actor Michael Caine has starred in to date. Interesting sequel that picks up where "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) leaves off, with the ship floating capsized and a band of pirates reaping havoc. 11 x.... (read more)
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1952. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1952 film. A young Robin Hood, in love with the beautiful maiden Marion, enters an archery contest with his father. Afterwards, his father is brutally murdered, and Robin Hood must avenge his death. Shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1937. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1938 film. Seen is Ray Milland and Lynne Overman, freshly marooned. Based on a story by Gerald Geraghty and Curt Siodmak. Bob (Milland) and Jimmy (Overman) are marooned in the South Pacific while looking for a missing aviator. They are aided on an island by an exotic woman named... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Draft script for the 1990 film. Based on director Clive Barker's 1988 novella "Cabal." Craig Sheffer stars as a man who stumbles upon an underground city of peaceful monsters, becoming a monster himself in the process, and who must help protect them from other humans including his serial killer therapist. This version of the... (read more)
London: London Management, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An old sentry at an abandoned fort in South Africa finds a man dying of thirst in the desert and brings him back to the fort to nurse him back to health. From there, he learns the man is a crook and Herbie reveals his plan to rob a gold... (read more)
Los Angeles: California Pictures, 1979. Collection of 51 vintage borderless, color photographs from the 1979 film. Also included are eight large format negatives for photographs in the collection. Two US Navy divers, taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines, are forced to search for millions of dollars worth of silver that the retreating American forces dumped into Manila Bay... (read more)
N.p. Self published, 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a nazi. This script is very likely a lengthening of the original short... (read more)
N.p. Self published, 1983. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film called "Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter," written by Joshua Becker and Scott Spiegel, who released a short film of the same name a year earlier, in 1982, starring Bruce Campbell as the bounty hunter, and Sam Raimi as a Nazi. This script differs slightly in dialogue and scene changes from... (read more)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1964 film. With a photo agency stamp and holograph notations on the verso. Dufourquet (Belmondo) is in Paris on shore leave, eager to see his Agnes (Dorléac). When he finally sees her, only briefly before she's kidnapped and held for ransom by a treasure-hungry family friend. A James Bond spoof... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. Revised Sixth Draft script for the 1990 film. A police officer working in a rich suburb of Philadelphia pulls over a wealthy business owner and messed with the wrong guy, as he is reassigned to downtown Philadelphia. Everyone is sure he will get himself and his partner killed so Sergeant Curren (Whitaker) is assigned to... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1953. Final Draft script for the 1953 film. The twelfth installment in the "Jungle Jim" series, based on the comic strip character created by Alex Raymond in 1934. Rather than a wild man like Tarzan, Jungle Jim is a hunter, and the action is set in Asia rather than Africa. Jim brings justice to the... (read more)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1990. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1990 film, showing director Besson peering through a missing pane of glass with a camera. A breakthrough international success for Besson, who would go on to a long career as a director and producer of action films, and would hit it even bigger three years later with "The Professional" ("Leon"). Remade... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film. Darryl Walker lives a blissful life as a clumsy repairman in the inner city, naive to the horrors until his grandmother is killed because she supports the anti-corruption measures of the mayor. Walker decides to become a vigilante superhero, using his technical expertise to create new devices to... (read more)
Los Angeles: Ablo, 1987. Draft script for the 1988 film. After his friend Cody disappears into the forest, Dallas is determined to find him, unbeknownst to his younger brother Joey, whom he invites along on his trip and believes them to be on a simple hunting trip. After Cody is found crucified in the woods and a young woman Stevie... (read more)
England: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1980s. Original British quad poster for the 1970 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. Distributor notation in holograph ink on the verso. Second of the five "Apes" films, about a lone astronaut who accidentally follows Taylor (from the first film) into the future, where he is found as a prisoner of subterranean humans... (read more)
Paris: Filmsonor, Circa 1962. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 French-Italian film. Featuring French actor and comedian, Pierre Repp on the set, mounted on a Boxer. Printed on Agfa-Brovira paper. Repp (1909-1986) was a French film actor and comedian, noted for his stuttering speech, and particularly popular in Parisian music halls and cabaret. Notable film credits include "Hello Smile!"... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1925. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph of Rudolph Valentino from the 1925 film. Typed mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Pushkin's 1841 novel "Dubrovsky." Dubrovsky (Valentino) is a Cossack in the Russian army who becomes a masked vigilante, and attempts to save his family from an evil carpetbagger. Unfortunately, he falls in love with... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Two vintage still photographs from the 1943 US film. One still is a black-and-white reference still, and the other is a full-color studio still. Based on a story by W.R. Burnett. Lieutenant Ward Stewart (Power) is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. Before sailing, he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and seduces her... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Original British quad poster for the 1962 US film. Printed in England by Stafford and Co., featuring artwork nearly identical to its US variants. Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan (Mahoney) is summoned by Indian princess, Kamara (Simi Garewal), hoping he will save endangered elephants. Going up against an old rival... (read more)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1966. Collection of 9 vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1966. Each still shows a particular location in Mexico City and in Acapulco, Mexico, various scenes used for shooting the film. Tarzan (Mike Henry) travels from Africa to Mexico at the request of an old friend to help rescue a kidnapped boy... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1954. Original US one sheet poster for the 1954 re-release of the 1936 film. Distributor rubber stamp on the verso. Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris, a book initially banned in the US. Miller (Torn) and his wife Ellen (Burstyn) dally in France's finer things, while he tries teaching... (read more)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Post-production Dialogue Cutting Continuity script for the 1936 film. This copy was photographically reproduced, circa 1970 or possibly later. Not a vintage item, useful for content information only. Based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane. Tarzan and Jane have taken up residence in their treehouse... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1940. Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1939 film. A skilled pilot falsely accused of having crashed a civilian transport airplane tries to maintain his honor at an Alaskan air hangar while attempting to clear his name. White wrappers, noted as production No. 1098, dated December 9, 1940, with credits for Anne Nagel, William Lundigan... (read more)
Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Pages watermarked "T20029" and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. The film would eventually be produced by Carolco Pictures, the same company that distributed the "Rambo" films and produced Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991). Schwarzenegger returns to play one of his most... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1994. Final Draft script for the 1994 film. The seventh Star Trek feature film, and first to include the beloved Next Generation cast, including Jean Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Data (Brent Spiner), William Riker (Jonathan Frakes), and Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton). Intended as a vehicle to transition Star Trek feature films from the original cast to... (read more)
Hong Kong: Shaw Brothers, 1973. Vintage German A1 poster for the 1973 Hong Kong film. One of many martial arts films produced by the Shaw Brothers, in which an ambitious martial arts student infiltrates a gang in order to avenge his murdered father. Shot on location in Hong Kong, China. 23.5 x 32.5 inches (60 x 83 cm). Near Fine... (read more)
Los Angeles: Millenium / New World Pictures, 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited member of the Property department, with notations in holograph ink throughout, with laid-in call sheet and shooting location sheet. A low-budget sci-fi adventure produced by Roger Corman. Hawk (Edwards) is a former space soldier turned pirate, who leads his crew... (read more)
N.p. Paragon International Pictures, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. One of several off-beat biker film staring the young Jack Nicholson. A gang of outlaws hold a motorcycle race to see who will "win" a young pregnant woman they previously kidnapped. Shot on location in Arizona and California. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near... (read more)
Paris: AGIP / Cinemonde, Circa 1955. Original press photograph of French stuntman and special effects artist, Gil Delamare, at the wheel of an automobile in helmet and goggles, circa 1955. Brief cropping notations in holograph pencil, Delamare's name in holograph ink, and rubber stamps for photographer Cohen and film magazine Cinémonde, on the verso. Cinémonde Issue number 1101 (September 8... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1972. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1972 film. Based on the 1968 novel of the same name and part of the 87th Precinct stories series, this mystery involves detectives investigating a murder-extorition racket ran by a deaf man. While preventing several attacks on high-ranking city officials, they are also faced with a string of... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 UK film. Printed in England by Bovince. Based on screenwriter Mitchell's 1969 novel, writing as James Munro, and his John Craig spy series. John (Baker) is an astute British spy trying to rescue a Soviet scientist. But his enemies also kidnap a pretty young bystander, and John is forced... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Original British quad double-bill VHS release poster for the 1980 and 1977 films. Presumably used in British grindhouse cinemas and for publicity use in VHS retail stores. "Supersnooper" [Super Fuzz], 1980: Dave Speed (Hill) is a policeman with super powers after a nuclear explosion, but his powers are useless when he sees anything red... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white double weight studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Based on an original story by Sonny Grosso, about the "Seven-Ups," a secret New York detective squad with unorthodox methods (of questionable legality). An informant for the squad is secretly behind a kidnapping scheme, with the kidnappers impersonating police officers. Shot... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. First draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal's debut role as Nico Toscani, an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop Zargon (Henry Silva)... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Rainbow Draft script for the 1994 film. Keanu Reeves is a Los Angeles police officer who must rescue a city bus that has been rigged with an unusual bomb by Dennis Hopper, an ex-cop with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Sandra Bullock plays the sassy love interest. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went... (read more)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film, provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and holograph notations on the verso. Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who after a series... (read more)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Three original contact print photographs, and a 2-frame strip of original film negatives, from the 1964 French-Italian film. Candid images by uncredited photographer Rossell, intended for press distribution, featuring actors Belmondo and Dorleac, and an unidentified companion, seen at the airport smoking cigarettes and stopping on the highway to observe a wrecked vehicle. Over thirty... (read more)
Paris: Filmsonor, 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Cartouche." Action sequences, men in military regalia, and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale, with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope, noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap... (read more)
Paris: France Cinema, 1961. Collection of 9 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Les Mongols." Rubber-stamps on the versos, crediting photographer Dorka and street address. Palance and Ekberg are present in a few photos, including two candid images of Ekberg. Housed in brown envelope and fold, both with French film... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Revised Final Draft script for the 1967 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Bert Ford, with his name at the top right corner of the front wrapper in holograph ink. Derek Flint (Coburn) returns in this James Bond-styled spy spoof sequel to "Our Man Flint" (1966). Flint's boss Cramden (Cobb) assigns him to stop... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. With photocopied notations throughout. Later generation photocopy, but produced during production, with vintage Embassy Pictures production company wrappers. Based on Laurel & Hardy's classic short "The Music Box," Spencer Holden is a gambler set on the next bet as soon as the last one comes to an end... (read more)
N.p. Mirisch Corporation, 1974. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Snipe affixed to the verso of each image. An American action film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, and Linda Cristal. Bronson stars as a melon farmer who battles crime and dodges a vindictive hit man. Shot on location in Colorado... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Collection of seven vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Joseph Wambaugh. A law student begins working at the LAPD, only to have police work become ever more important in his life. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine condition. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1970 US-Japanese film. The film won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.Several screenwriters were employed to write the script, including Larry Forrester and Mitchell Lindemann for the American scenes, and Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, and Akira Kurosawa for the Japanese scenes. Kurosawa was excited to direct the... (read more)
N.p. International Film Production, 1977. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1977 film. Snipe affixed to the verso with tape. Based on Mark Twain's 1882 novel, "The Prince and the Pauper." A peasant boy switches identities with the Prince of Wales in Richard Fleischer's 1977 film. Starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, and Charlton Heston. Shot on location in... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1984. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1984 film. The sequel to "Conan the Barbarian." Featured in the photograph is the treacherous queen Taramis, who persuades Conan to undergo a dangerous mission, all the while intending to betray him. Shot on location in Mexico and Arizona. 10 x 8 inches... (read more)
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, featuring cool high-contrast design. Sequel to William Friedkin's fantastic 1971 film, "The French Connection." This time, Hackman and Rey both reprising their roles, the action goes down in Marseilles. More drugs, more shootouts, and Doyle's forced heroin addiction. 29.75 x.... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1953. Vintage set design photograph from the 1953 film. After their rig has been blown up by the gangster El Gavilan, (Garcia) two broke wildcatters (Cooper, Bond) look for work and find hard-luck situations involving old loves, extremely unstable nitroglycerin and more run-ins with gangsters. Shot on location in Mexico City, Mexico 8 x 10 inches... (read more)
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1986. First Draft script for the 1986 television movie. One of two "C.A.T. Squad" films made in the mid-1980s, both directed for television by noted director William Friedkin. An early draft, possibly constructed as a television episode that grew into a feature-length project. A special government trio is formed to combat terrorism, known as..... (read more)
Tokyo: Toho Company /, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 Japanese film. Based on the 1972-1973 manga written by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura. The story of a woman with a sword in the end of her umbrella who seeks vengeance against the men who murdered her father and raped her mother, leaving a trail of blood in her wake... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Nick (Williams) is a federal agent tracking down a heroin ring, with the help of a few recruits he's trained, and seeking revenge for his deceased daughter. Prostitution, Vietnam War vets, and a Jewish ex-con make the nearly three-hour hit an explosive dose of action. Set in France, shot on... (read more)
Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Copy belonging to Brad Ricker, an unknown crew member, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. EVE VIII is a military cyborg, designed to look like her creator. When it is damaged during a bank robbery, it begins accessing dark and tragic personal memories of... (read more)
New York: Interstar, 1978. Revised Shooting script for the 1980 film. Vigilante crime drama focuses on a Vietnam vet who reeks revenge on the streets of New York for his friend who was mugged and subsequently crippled. In the vein of "Death Wish" (1974), but with more flame-throwing, more whores and junkies, and more exterminating. A cult classic. Shot on... (read more)
Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1982. Shooting script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph notations highlighting camera shots throughout. Rogue KGB agents, posing as Islamic terrorists, steal a nuclear weapon and threaten to blow up Saudi oil fields unless their demands are met. Enter The Soldier, a CIA operative whose actions have been disavowed by... (read more)
US: Cannon, 1985. Draft script and archive for the 1986 film belonging to actor Lainie Kazan, who played Sylvia in the film, with her holograph notations throughout, and various other ephemera, including call sheets, cast and crew lists, two thumbnail sized photographs of her in character, and 16 additional revised script pages with occasional handwritten notations. Most significantly, included is... (read more)
Los Angeles: Jay Weston Productions, Circa 1970s. Revised Draft script for an unproduced action film about a American soldier trying to free his son from a military prison in a fictional South American county in the throes of revolution. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present, noted as Revised Draft, with credits for screenwriter Gordon. 96 leaves, with last page of... (read more)
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Later generation photocopy, not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. An American spy infiltrates Sicily during World War II, where he works to bring down the fascist government. Set in Sicily. Tan titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter S.N. Gorodisky. 145 leaves, with last page of text numbered 145. Pages Very..... (read more)
Paris: Dargaud Films, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 French-British film. Based on the "Asterix" comic book series by writer Goscinny and illustrator Uderzo, a series that began in 1959, serialized in Pilote magazine, and ran until Goscinny's death in 1977, afterwards written by Uderzo until 2009. The series has spawned thirteen films, four of them live-action, games, and... (read more)
Paris: Criterion Film. Draft script for an unproduced film. A beautiful Soviet skier and pilot is taken hostage by a gangster, who also steals the mysterious Weapon D, capable of beginning a nuclear war, which is all a part of his plan to destroy the world and repopulate it with the smartest, most beautiful people. She is saved and subsequently... (read more)
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1977. Final Revised Draft script for the 1977 television movie. Based on the 1977 book by Harold King. Included is a vintage production photo of William Devane from the film, with a snipe on the verso with the CBS television logo. A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and seals off the reactor... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Draft script for the 1990 film, here under its working title "58 Minutes." Based on Walter Wager's 1987 novel, "58 minutes." John McClane (Willis) attempts to save Dulles Airport from South American drug lords who have seized electronic communications between the airplanes and the airport. Shot on location in Michigan, California, and Colorado. Preceded... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. Henry Hathaway directed this film about a reckless race-car driver whose life further careens out of control following an automobile accident. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine with a small green sticker and a holograph ink notation to... (read more)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1974. Vintage still photographs from the 1974 film. Featuring Yaphet Kotto and two of his compatriots. A constant barrage of car chases and bloody shootouts, Isaac Hayes plays a pimp-killing bounty hunter on whom the tables are turned, when one of his mark's girlfriends puts a hit out on him. He must outsmart Yaphet... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Pan Arts / Warner Brothers, 1983. First Draft script for the 1984 film. Later reproduction, but created from a master during production with vintage Pan Arts company wrappers. Based on the 198 novel by John le Carre. Diane Keaton plays a British actress who becomes a double agent for Israel and Palestine. Set in Europe and the Middle... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), and "Slap Shot" (1977). Loosely based on fact... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Collection of five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1981 film. Featuring photographs of Keith Carradine, director Walter Hill, and others. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two pages, one a letter dated November 4, 1982 and the other a synopsis of the film. Two men survive a nuclear blast in their city, only to be pursued relentlessly by roving bands of Nazi marauders. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982... (read more)
Taiwan: International Film Company, 2016. French mini poster, printed in Chinese, French, and English, for the 2016 re-release of the 1971 Taiwanese film. The film received a Criterion Collection release in the same year.Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Originally released in two parts and later condensed into a single epic, King Hu's visually striking film... (read more)
London: Thorn EMI, 1985. Collection of 10 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1985 British-Australian film. Based on Daniel Carney's 1982 novel, "The Square Circle," and sequel to "The Wild Geese" (1978). A group of mercenaries are hired by a broadcasting company to "rescue" a Nazi war criminal. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm). Light corner bumps, else Near Fine. Scarce. (read more)
n.p. N.p., Circa 1982. Two draft scripts for an unproduced film. Both have a flyer for the film laid-in, and are heavily notated with holograph ink and pencil. Based on the 1968 novel "Legion of Outcasts" by Hurk Davis, the autobiography of Peter Reeves as told to Mr. Davis, who was a Dutchman living comfortably until he ran out of... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1983 film. Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is a Los Angeles Judge disillusioned with the ineffective legal system. After watching two violent criminals walk on a technicality, he decides to partake in an underground ring of vigilante justice, only to discover it is as flawed and dangerous as the... (read more)
England: ITC Entertainment, 1977. Collection of 7 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1977 American-British film. Robert (Gould) is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission, including a fake landing, transmitted messages, and a fatal reentry... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Lazarus-Hyams Productions / Warner Brothers, 1976. Draft script for the 1978 American-British film. Robert (Gould) is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission, including a fake landing, transmitted messages, and a fatal reentry. Shot on location... (read more)
London: The Ladd Company, 1981. Original British quad poster for the 1981 film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, art by DFS. Marshall William (Connery) is sent to one of Jupiter's moons to uncover a slave-labor, drug-smuggling operation, but the locals are apprehensive. Nominated for an Academy Award and a Hugo Award, winner of a Saturn Award. 26.25 x.... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1975. Collection of 5 vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double reference studio still photographs from the 1975 film. Based on the 1974 novel by William Harrison. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine condition. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Culver City, CA: Tristar Pictures, 1995. Shooting Draft script for the 1995 film. Alan (Williams) as a young boy finds a board game in a locked chest and brings it home to play with his friend Sarah (Hunt) and the game turns out to be a surreal game that affects reality and pulls Alan into the jungle of the game... (read more)
Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1938. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1938 film. Featuring images of Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond, and others. Written for the screen by Nathanael West. Ralph Byrd and Ward Bond play two rough and tumble truckers who agree to take a dangerous load of dynamite to a city in danger of being... (read more)
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Original British quad poster for the 1974 US film. Theatre Royal rubber stamp on the verso. Griff (Gould) and Bruland (Sutherland) are to goofy ex-CIA spies on the run from the KGB, Chinese gangsters, and the CIA. Shot on location in England and France. 29.5 x 38.5 inches (75 x 97.75 cm), folded four times as... (read more)
New York: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Brief notations in holograph pencil throughout, and two names, Collins and Swann (presumed, association unknown), on the first page. Noted in pencil on the last leaf of text as "13 page treatment / 28 story developments / The entire story related here / story of taming of a.... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr, who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode, with his signature on the first page, and notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Two private investigators work on the south side of... (read more)
New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Shakespeare's play, "King Lear." An elderly warlord in Medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa... (read more)
Hong Kong: Golden Way Films Ltd., 1992. Vintage Hong Kong double crown poster for the 1992 film. A goofy film featuring actor Jackie Chan, who plays identical twins separated at birth. The brothers, unaware of each other's existence and living drastically different lives, become aquatinted when they are mistaken for one another. Shot on location in Hong Kong and New... (read more)
Hong Kong: Eastern Renaissance Pictures, 1994. Vintage Hong Kong film poster for the 1994 film. Chow Yun-fat plays a Chinese American CIA operative tasked with escorting a Chinese national treasure to the US. 27 x 40 inches (69 x 102 cm). A small tear to the margin, else Near Fine. (read more)
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], Circa 1980. Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "The Border." With notations in holograph ink throughout. Frank Cooper is a border patrol agent who is friendly with the locals and hostile to the local gangs that terrorize both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States. A.... (read more)
Atlanta, GA: New World Pictures, 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. With a few notations in holograph pencil throughout. Gunnery Sergeant Burns (Dryer) is sent to the Middle East, where he acts as a guard at the local US Embassy. However, due to the pacific nature of the ambassador, the marine corps detachment is severely limited in their... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. Revised Final Draft script for the 1961 film. Three convicts, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy, and Gregoire Aslan, are en route for Tahiti but make an unexpected stop on the island Talua, where they are put to work under the eccentric Father Doonan at his leper hospital for children. When disaster strikes the volcanic island... (read more)
Hollywood: Paul Kohner, Inc. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid-in is a black and white photograph depicting the set for a village in the film. During the Korean War, a group of marines are pinned down behind enemy lines in a remote village where the only survivor is a Korean woman, whose husband was killed, and her child. Their... (read more)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script (ribbon copy typescript) for the pilot episode of an unproduced television series. Jonothan Doom, an ex-war correspondent has turned private investigator in this series, along with his sidekick, old cop, Shannon Muldoon. Using their wits and judo techniques instead of firearms, their unorthodox approach to crime will bring them fame and infamy, in an..... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1982. Collection of six vintage film still photographs (three of which are borderless) from the French release of the groundbreaking 1982 film. Featuring an image of Jeff Bridges and Cindy Morgan in their Grid bodysuits as well as various images of computer graphics that represent the Grid. Jeff Bridges plays a game designer who ends... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1981. Draft script for the 1982 film. Jeff Bridges plays a game designer who ends up in the very game he's been programming, and who must defeat the computer-generated image of his money-grubbing employer. The pinnacle of computer graphics technology at the time, a hybrid of back-lit live action and computer-generated visuals, "TRON" was one... (read more)
N.p. Lo Wei Motion Picture Company, 1978. Vintage Hong Kong poster for the 1978 film. A 1978 Honk Kong martial arts film starring Jackie Chan as Yi-Lang, a sassy martial arts student who learns to master a once-lost style of fighting. 20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm). Light holograph pencil notation to the verso, else Near Fine. (read more)
N.p. Golden Sun / Artisan Entertainment, 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film, here under the working title "Death Squad.." A special forces combat unit is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 8/8/84, with credits for screenwriters Sandra K. Bailey, Douglas Borton. 106 leaves, mechanically... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Vintage photograph of a modest Monica Vitti from the 1966 film. With holograph notations in pencil on the verso. Based on an original comic strip by Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway. O'Donnell wrote an original screenplay for the film, although much of it was never used, and he novelized the film the same year it... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Vintage borderless press photograph of Monica Vitti from the 1966 film. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. Based on an original comic strip by Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway. O'Donnell wrote an original screenplay for the film, although much of it was never used, and he novelized the film the same year... (read more)
Rome: Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, 1968. Draft script for the 1970 Italian-Yugoslavian film, "Rosolino Paterno, soldato...," here under the working title, "5 S.O.B.'s." Agency photocopy, not vintage, for research purposes only. A pair of American commandos parachute inside Sicily for a secret mission. They are asked to check on Germany's status before the attack. Along the way, they meet a.... (read more)
London: Fox-Rank, 1974. Original British quad poster for the 1974 British-French film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry. Loosely based on MacLean's 1969 novel. Bowman (Birney) meets photographer Lila (Rampling) just before the two run into an assassin on the loose. Lila is unaware that Bowman is driving a car lent him by a duke, who also blackmails Bowman into... (read more)
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also based on a MacLean novel. Set during WWII, US Colonel... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Revised Final Draft script for the 1955 film. The 8th and final collaboration of James Stewart and Anthony Mann, and the second film to be released in VistaVision. "Dutch" (Stewart) is a professional baseball player and an ex-pilot who fought during WWII who is recalled to service with the US Air Force. Many speculate that the... (read more)
Hollywood: Goldwyn Studios, 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a steel magnate is kidnapped from her college and being held for ransom by a group called the Army of the Oppressed, whose insane leader demands ten million dollars in food for the poor. His enemy, Turkey, the leader of the Liberators in Detroit exacts his own... (read more)
![That Man From Rio [L'Homme de Rio] (Original photograph from the 1964 film). Jean Paul Belmondo, Philippe de Broca, Ariane Mnouchkine Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Daniel Boulanger, Jean Servais Francoise Dorleac, Daniel Ceccaldi, Roger Dumas, starring, screenwriter director, screenwriter.](/pictures/thumb/144481.jpg?v=1544116777)
![La Femme Nikita [Nikita] (Original photograph of Luc Besson on the set of the 1990 film). Luc Besson, Jean-Hughes Anglade Anne Parillaud, Jean Reno, Jean Moreau, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/142107.jpg?v=1499437044)
![Up to his Ears [Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine] (Original photograph from the 1965 film). Philippe de Broca, Jules Verne, Daniel Boulanger, Ursula Andress Jean-Paul Belmondo, Valerie Lagrange, Maria Pacome, director, novel, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/144489.jpg?v=1540328951)
![A Fine Mess [The Music Box] (Original screenplay for the 1986 film). Blake Edwards, Howie Mandel Ted Danson, Stuart Mulligan, Richard Mulligan, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140593.jpg?v=1525704083)
![French Connection II [French Connection Number 2] (Original British poster for the 1975 film). John Frankenheimer, Robert Dillon Alexander Jacobs, Laurie Dillon, Fernando Rey Gene Hackman, Philippe Leotard, Bernard Fresson, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/139033.jpg?v=1492980174)
![Hit [Hit] (Original screenplay for the 1973 film). Sidney J. Furie, David M. Wolf Alan Trustman, Richard Pryor Billy Dee Williams, Gwen Welles, Paul Hampton, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/138687.jpg?v=1492980044)
![The Affairs of Messalina [Messalina] (Original Italian Souvenir Program for the 1951 film). Carmine Gallone, Albert Valentin Vittorio Nino Novarese, Cesare Ludovici, Pierre Laroche, Georges Marchal Maria Felix, Delia Scala, Memo Benassi, story director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140476.jpg?v=1492980536)
![Die Hard 2 [58 Minutes] (Original First Draft screenplay for the 1990 film). Renny Harlin, Doug Richardson Steven E. de Souza, Bonnie Bedelia Bruce Willis, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140704.jpg?v=1546901515)
![Border Cop [The Border] (Original screenplay for the 1980 film). Christopher Leitch, Michael Allin, Danny De La Paz Telly Savalas, Michael V. Gazzo, Eddie Albert, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140638.jpg?v=1525704087)
![The Devil at Four [4] O'Clock (Original screenplay for the 1961 film). Mervyn LeRoy, Liam O'Brien, Spencer Tracy Frank Sinatra, Barbara Luna, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/139031.jpg?v=1492980174)
![Counterforce [Death Squad] (Original screenplay for the 1988 film). Jose Antonio de la Loma, Douglas Borton Sandra K. Bailey, Carlos Vasallo, Simon Andreu Robert Forster, Kevin Bernhardt, Kabir Bedi, screenwriter director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140598.jpg?v=1492980566)
